How do I search all revisions of a file in a SubVersion repository?

Question

I\'d like to grep all revisions of a file for a string. e.g. to find when a function was added or removed.

Is there a \"simple\" way to do this? (i.e.

Answer 1

The "annotate/blame" command does not do exactly what you want, but it could help:

svn blame — Show author and revision information in-line for the specified files or URLs.

 $ svn blame http://svn.red-bean.com/repos/test/readme.txt
 3      sally This is a README file.
 5      harry You should read this.

So, you should be able to find out who added a function. As for finding out who deleted a function, no idea.